NEW YORK -- The Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant today were named the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, March 9, through Sunday, March 15.

Also, I think the league in a way, is clearly sending a message to Wade that by doing this, they're basically telling him, as good as you've been this season and are, the criteria for the mvp has been for a long time about best players, but on teams with the best records, and that's not gonna' change this year just for you whether you like it or not and it IS only fair, as we've talked about before, because then it'd be f'd up for all those greats like for one our Kobester before with the 35 ppg season, 9 or more games in a row with 45+ etc, not to have gotten' it.

"If you could stop all the players that get publicized and all the players that the NBA likes and all the players, you know, the players that win the MVP's, you know, for their offense. And some of them, you know, play pretty good defense too. But some of them, you know, they like "this guy he can shoot, he can score, he can dunk." and I want to be the one to stop all those guys, you know, and just kinda spoil the whole party." - Ron Artest